MILTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7783, 29 January 1887, Page 6 (Supplement)

MILTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

TO THE EDITOB»

Sir, —I have been told no one can hold a seat m a borough council who supplies them with goods or does work For them, or is any way interested iv any contract. Editors seem to jtnow everything; and can you, Sir, inform me if such is the case ? If it is, it cannot include the Milton Borough Council, for there are in it five members out of nine who are so interested or have been, and another one who has been absent from three or four meetings.—l am, &c., „' .... -, ' Inguihee. Milttiu, January 24.

at the Great Barrier is completed, there is one character that stands out in bold relief—that is, Grace Graham or Cleary. We are not aware in what relation she stands to the administration of justice, having been accepted as a witness-for the prosecution, or whether anything has been done by those in charge of the prosecution that will give her immunity from being indicted as a participator; if so, then all we can say is that there has been a scandalous miscarriage of justice. On her own sworn testimony she was an accessory before the fact and an accessory after the fact, and very little removed indeed "from being an accomplice in the fact. If there is still any way in which she can be placed on her trial for her share in this thing, she should .be charged She says she .heard them -plot the death of the victim before'they left the Auckland harbour. By her own showing she knew she was going on a murderous mission. Atter the deed was known by her to have been committed, she had. opportunity for escaping from the Sovereign of the Seas; in fact was some distance away when at Sandy Bay ana needed not to have returned. But she persisted in casting in her lot with the fugitives from jushce, and for all this she is within the grasp of the law. If she is not held by it, then the proi secntion has been grossly 'mismanaged, despite its results m the case of thii principal actors; for that wretched girl, who is of the lowest type of the lowest class pf. prostitutes that have .ever been known in this place, should not be let free on society to gloat over the vile and criminal share which she had in this dreadful event. : If; she cannot be arraigned for her crime as a willing participator, then it is clear she can be indicted as a perjurer, and the distinct contradiction given to her statements as to what transpired on board before sailing from the Waitemata indicates a way in which the paralysed arm" of the law can clutch her, as she appears to have expressed her anticipations of getting two years for perjury, and it will.be a pity if she is disappointed. If that wretched, iemalo hoodlum, young in years bufc hoary in sin, is allowed to go scot free, then law and justice are made a laughing-stock of." . • '■■-■-.;..,-.